Answer:
D. The U.S. believed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Explanation:
This was the official statement of President Bush. A PBS article states, “Americans were told by President Bush and his administration that the U.S. was going to war with Iraq because of the imminent threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and ties to terrorism.” Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq at the time, had the capability of creating weapons of mass destruction and already possessed them after the Gulf War.
The accusations made against King George III had a direct effect on what the founding fathers considered important to include in the declaration of independence, which ended up setting the basis of the new American government to be guided by the later written Constitution. Due to the political climate at the time, the declaration of Independence was created as a sort of a justification for the necessity of separation from England; based on the concerns of the colonist about the way King George III was ruling at the time, characterized by practices such as abuse of power, tyranny, and exclusion of the colonist in government.
